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Friday, December 17, 2004

About William S. (Seward) Burroughs.

William S. (Seward) Burroughs (February 5, 1914 - August 2, 1997).

An American novelist, essayist, satirist and social critic. Burroughs' writing is original, graphic, and candid. He produced a sizable amount of literature in over forty years of international publication. He was inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1983. His early writing is often associated with the Beat Generation. Burroughs was close friends with Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, and Herbert Huncke before he was a published author.

Thursday, December 16, 2004

Download: Junky's Christmas

Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Download: Junky

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junk, his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone. This book brings them vividly to life again; it is an unvarnished field report from the American postwar underground.